Friday, 5 February 2016

Both vconfig and ifenslave are wrappers around iproute2 (well, vconfiguses the same interface as iproute2). However, what we really need fromthese packages are wrappers around ifupdown. That allows defining vlanand bond in /etc/network/interfaces.

So, it's not that much about MAAS, as it is about Ubuntu. I'm all infavour of having these wrappers in ifupdown by default. Until then, weneed to install them.

However, I do agree that we do keep on having some archaic tools likeroute, ifconfig, netstat which should be not just removed, but banned(for providing false data).